Ryan Stout
Founder, CEO Dev at Arsenal, The Intelligent Camera Assistant
Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Stout is a founder and software engineer with 16 years of experience building product-focused ML and full-stack systems from prototype to market. He leads Arsenal (North of You), delivering a hardware-plus-ML computational photography solution that helps people take better photos, and previously founded Social Data Technologies to apply NLP and social signals to personality and interest prediction. Early roles at Pagemodo and Apple honed his product-facing engineering instincts—Pagemodo scaled to $10M ARR and was later acquired—while his hands-on work dates back to childhood and ML practice since 2010. A pragmatic coder and open-source contributor, he has improved core capabilities in projects like the Opal Ruby-to-JavaScript compiler, focusing on stability and build correctness. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he combines startup grit with deep technical curiosity, often bridging hardware, ML models, and production services.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Franciscan University of Steubenville
Github Skills (11)
opal10
compiler10
hash10
javascript10
compiler-compiler10
ruby10
es6-promise9
testing8
file-operations7
fileio7
filesystem7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
opal/opal
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 42 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the Ruby-based Opal compiler. They added and improved methods within the `Set` class, addressed recursive hash issues within core libraries, and fixed bugs related to Promise functionality. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the build process by using `File.basename` for correct path handling. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the core functionality and stability of the Opal compiler.
javascriptrubyopalcompilerjs
voltrb/volt
Jan 2014 - Jan 2016
A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client
Contributions:1717 commits, 112 PRs, 321 pushes in 2 years
rubyweb-framework
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